Re: Booting 2nd(!) FreeBSD installation sitting on same disk
On Sat, 03-Nov-2012 at 18:46:04 +0100, Mehmet Erol Sanliturk wrote: On Sat, Nov 3, 2012 at 9:54 AM, Andre Albsmeier andre.albsme...@siemens.commailto:andre.albsme...@siemens.com wrote: For various reasons I have to use this disk layout: One harddisk with MBR and 3 slices on a i386 box: Slice 1: Windows XP :-( Slice 2: FreeBSD 7.4-STABLE V1 Slice 3: FreeBSD 7.4-STABLE V2 The MBR is configured as: options=packet,noupdate,nosetdrv default_selection=F2 (Slice 2) When booting, I can choose between: F1 Win F2 FreeBSD F3 FreeBSD However, when pressing F3, the system of slice 2(!) is loaded. This is due to the fact that boot1 always loads the first active FreeBSD slice ;-(. I have two possibilities to actually boot slice 3: 1. Playing with currdev when loader(8) is loaded (or using loader.conf of slice 2). 2. Using boot0cfg to allow updating the MBR. 1. is not really fexible and 2. means that the system remembers which slice was booted last (something I do not want). Is there no chance to actually honour the fact that F3 was pressed and boot from slice 3 without updating the MBR before? Thanks, -Andre There is the following port for managing boot selections : ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/amd64/packages-9.0-release/Latest/grub2.tbz http://www.freshports.org/sysutils/grub2/ Well, I actually wanted to stick to FreeBSD's boot stuff... -Andre ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Booting 2nd(!) FreeBSD installation sitting on same disk
On Sat, 03-Nov-2012 at 23:34:48 +0100, jb wrote: Andre Albsmeier Andre.Albsmeier at siemens.com writes: ... However, when pressing F3, the system of slice 2(!) is loaded. This is due to the fact that boot1 always loads the first active FreeBSD slice ;-(. ... Is there no chance to actually honour the fact that F3 was pressed and boot from slice 3 without updating the MBR before? I do not know the story of active slice in FreeBSD, but I know that neither Windows nor Linux require active partitions (in their jargon) to boot from any more. If course FreeBSD doesn't rely on being started from an active slice. Otherwise playing with currdev in loader wouldn't work. It is just boot1 which causes the problem since it always searches the MBR partition (slice) table for the first active FreeBSD slice and if it doesn't find one it starts over again and searches for any FreeBSD slice. The problem is that boot1 doesn't get the information which F-key was pressed in boot0 directly. It does only in case you allow a write-back of the MBR using -o update with boot0cfg. I made an ugly hack for this by patching boot1 code of slice 3 in a way that it actually searches for IN(!)active partitions in its first pass: --- sys/boot/i386/boot2/boot1.S.ORI 2012-09-23 22:07:16.0 +0200 +++ sys/boot/i386/boot2/boot1.S 2012-11-05 07:16:29.0 +0100 @@ -151,7 +151,11 @@ jne main.3 # No jcxz main.5 # If second pass testb $0x80,(%si) # Active? +#ifdef AA_SKIP_ACTIVE_BSDSLICE + jz main.5 # No +#else jnz main.5 # Yes +#endif main.3:add $0x10,%si # Next entry incb %dh# Partition cmpb $0x1+PRT_NUM,%dh # In table? Since this code only sits in boot1 of slice 3 it just applies to slice 3. The proper fix would be to pass the information about the key pressed in boot0 to boot1 directly via registers of by whatever means... -Andre ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Booting 2nd(!) FreeBSD installation sitting on same disk
For various reasons I have to use this disk layout: One harddisk with MBR and 3 slices on a i386 box: Slice 1: Windows XP :-( Slice 2: FreeBSD 7.4-STABLE V1 Slice 3: FreeBSD 7.4-STABLE V2 The MBR is configured as: options=packet,noupdate,nosetdrv default_selection=F2 (Slice 2) When booting, I can choose between: F1 Win F2 FreeBSD F3 FreeBSD However, when pressing F3, the system of slice 2(!) is loaded. This is due to the fact that boot1 always loads the first active FreeBSD slice ;-(. I have two possibilities to actually boot slice 3: 1. Playing with currdev when loader(8) is loaded (or using loader.conf of slice 2). 2. Using boot0cfg to allow updating the MBR. 1. is not really fexible and 2. means that the system remembers which slice was booted last (something I do not want). Is there no chance to actually honour the fact that F3 was pressed and boot from slice 3 without updating the MBR before? Thanks, -Andre ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Hardware RAID controller questions - 3Ware vs RocketRaid
On Thu, 18-Mar-2010 at 09:37:32 +0100, Andy Wodfer wrote: Hi, We're setting up two backup servers where each server will have about 4TB of harddrives (for now) connected (4x1TB and 8x500GB drives). Last night we ran into trouble with the 3ware controllers we have (9650SE-8LPML) because we couldn't create a larger RAID5 than 1.99TB. I can only speak for a 9690SA-8I, but this thing is amazing. It handles FSs over 2TB pretty well: twa0: 3ware 9000 series Storage Controller port 0xc800-0xc8ff mem 0xfa00-0xfbff,0xfeaff000-0xfeaf irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci4 twa0: [ITHREAD] twa0: INFO: (0x15: 0x1300): Controller details:: Model 9690SA-8I, 128 ports, Firmware FH9X 4.10.00.007, BIOS BE9X 4.08.00.002 And with 8 1TB in a RAID5 drives it gives me: da0 at twa0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 box:~diskinfo /dev/da0 /dev/da0512 624277248 13671727104 851025 255 63 -Andre We are going to use FreeBSD 8.0 and Bacula, but first we obviously need to create a working RAID. My questions are: - Are HighPoint RocketRaid controllers a good alternative to 3ware controllers? Are RocketRaid controllers true hardware RAID? - What should we look for in a RAID controller spec to see that it has support for larger than 2TB RAIDs? I've been looking at these: http://www.highpoint-tech.com/USA_new/series_rr2300.htm http://www.highpoint-tech.com/USA_new/series_rr3500.htm Any FreeBSD recommendations? Or perhaps for another 3ware controller? We're using SATAII drives. Thanks for your help! Best regards, Andreas ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org -- I am forced by company policy to use Micro$oft products. I am not responsible for this choice and decline any responsibility for any harm which may be caused by it. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Freebsd Built-in vacation program does not auto reply
On Fri, 04-Sep-2009 at 20:43:21 +0200, Andre Albsmeier wrote: On Thu, 16-Apr-2009 at 18:00:26 +, lyd mc wrote: Hi guys, Why Freebsd built-in vacation program (/usr/bin/vacation) does not auto reply? I am using fresh installed Freebsd7.0 and 7.1. here is my configs. Did you solve the problem already? I had a similar issue and tracked it down to a really strange compiler bug... In fact it's no compiler bug (I only discovered it by changing the compiler options) but a problem in vacation.c. -Andre ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Freebsd Built-in vacation program does not auto reply
[Please do not topquote] On Tue, 08-Sep-2009 at 05:19:53 +, lyd mc wrote: Hi Andre, I haven't solve it yet. I use the one in the ports tree (/usr/ports/mail/vacation) as my work around. Now I use sieve script for vacation notice. Do you have a patch? May be I can use it in the future... Thanks. No, I have a workaround. Do you have the sources to compile vacation yourself? Can you recompile it without -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing and try again? And then recompile it with -O2 and try this again? -Andre Best Regards, alyd --- On Sat, 9/5/09, Andre Albsmeier andre.albsme...@siemens.com wrote: From: Andre Albsmeier andre.albsme...@siemens.com Subject: Re: Freebsd Built-in vacation program does not auto reply To: lyd mc alydi...@yahoo.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Saturday, September 5, 2009, 2:43 AM On Thu, 16-Apr-2009 at 18:00:26 +, lyd mc wrote: Hi guys, Why Freebsd built-in vacation program (/usr/bin/vacation) does not auto reply? I am using fresh installed Freebsd7.0 and 7.1. here is my configs. Did you solve the problem already? I had a similar issue and tracked it down to a really strange compiler bug... -Andre Under the home directory of the user (alydio.mc) .forward ??? \alydio.mc, |/usr/bin/vacation alydio.mc .vacation.msg ?? Subject: On vacation message ?? From: alydio...@mydomain.com ?? I'm on vacation and will not be reading my mail for a while. ? Your mail will be dealt with when I return. . from postfix/sendmail logs: ...sniff ?(delivered to command: /usr/bin/vacation alydio.mc) after this nothing will happened... no errors no warnings...? However the one I installed from ports (/usr/local/bin/vacation) works fine. I want to use the freebsd base vacation program.? Please help. Thank you, alydiomc -- Micro$oft: When will your system crash today? -- Linux is only free if your time is worthless. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Freebsd Built-in vacation program does not auto reply
On Thu, 16-Apr-2009 at 18:00:26 +, lyd mc wrote: Hi guys, Why Freebsd built-in vacation program (/usr/bin/vacation) does not auto reply? I am using fresh installed Freebsd7.0 and 7.1. here is my configs. Did you solve the problem already? I had a similar issue and tracked it down to a really strange compiler bug... -Andre Under the home directory of the user (alydio.mc) .forward ??? \alydio.mc, |/usr/bin/vacation alydio.mc .vacation.msg ?? Subject: On vacation message ?? From: alydio...@mydomain.com ?? I'm on vacation and will not be reading my mail for a while. ? Your mail will be dealt with when I return. . from postfix/sendmail logs: ...sniff ?(delivered to command: /usr/bin/vacation alydio.mc) after this nothing will happened... no errors no warnings...? However the one I installed from ports (/usr/local/bin/vacation) works fine. I want to use the freebsd base vacation program.? Please help. Thank you, alydiomc -- Micro$oft: When will your system crash today? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
P2B-D and ACPI or SMB anyone?
Hi, found this old P2B-D board with two 1GHz CPUs and don't want to throw it away ;-) Has anyone got it running with ACPI and without the interrupt storm on irq20? Judging from old mailing list messages it was blacklisted in 5.3 so ACPI got disabled but since it doesn't in 6.4-STABLE the issues were possibly fixed and I am simply too stupid... Another thing is the SMB. I have lots of P2B and P2B-L boards where the SMB is running fine (used by healthd). On this P2B-D it doesn't even attach using the usual device smbus device intpm device smb lines in the kernel. This is the dmesg (without ACPI), nothing special to see. When enabling ACPI we see an error about an interrupt storm on irq20 constantly... Copyright (c) 1992-2008 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD is a registered trademark of The FreeBSD Foundation. FreeBSD 6.4-STABLE #5: Wed May 20 11:58:13 CEST 2009 r...@server.ofw.tld:/src/obj-6/src/src-6/sys/cvsfix Timecounter i8254 frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0 CPU: Intel Pentium III (1002.28-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = GenuineIntel Id = 0x686 Stepping = 6 Features=0x383fbffFPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,MMX,FXSR,SSE real memory = 536858624 (511 MB) avail memory = 520503296 (496 MB) MPTable: OEM0 PROD FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 2 CPUs cpu0 (BSP): APIC ID: 1 cpu1 (AP): APIC ID: 0 ioapic0: Assuming intbase of 0 ioapic0 Version 1.1 irqs 0-23 on motherboard cpu0 on motherboard cpu1 on motherboard pcib0: MPTable Host-PCI bridge pcibus 0 on motherboard pci0: PCI bus on pcib0 eccmon0: RAM ECC Monitor v0.01 on 8086:7190 eccmon0: Chipset (i440BX/ZX) ECC capability: ECC with hardware scrubber eccmon0: Active mode: ECC with hardware scrubber eccmon0: Bank Size Type ILV ECC eccmon0: 0 128M SDR NY eccmon0: 1 128M SDR NY eccmon0: 2 128M SDR NY eccmon0: 3 128M SDR NY eccmon0: Total RAM detected: 512M eccmon0: attached pcib1: MPTable PCI-PCI bridge at device 1.0 on pci0 pci1: PCI bus on pcib1 pci1: display, VGA at device 0.0 (no driver attached) isab0: PCI-ISA bridge at device 4.0 on pci0 isa0: ISA bus on isab0 pci0: mass storage, ATA at device 4.1 (no driver attached) pci0: serial bus, USB at device 4.2 (no driver attached) piix0: PIIX Timecounter port 0xe800-0xe80f at device 4.3 on pci0 Timecounter PIIX frequency 3579545 Hz quality 0 ahc0: Adaptec 29160 Ultra160 SCSI adapter port 0xd000-0xd0ff mem 0xd680-0xd6800fff irq 18 at device 10.0 on pci0 ahc0: Bugs (0x0040): SCBCHAN_UPLOAD ahc0: [GIANT-LOCKED] aic7892: Ultra160 Wide Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 32/253 SCBs em0: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection Version - 6.7.3 port 0xb800-0xb83f mem 0xd600-0xd601 irq 17 at device 11.0 on pci0 em0: Ethernet address: 00:07:e9:14:56:a6 orm0: ISA Option ROM at iomem 0xc-0xcefff on isa0 atkbdc0: Keyboard controller (i8042) at port 0x60,0x64 on isa0 atkbd0: AT Keyboard irq 1 on atkbdc0 atkbd0: [GIANT-LOCKED] fdc0: Enhanced floppy controller at port 0x3f0-0x3f5,0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on isa0 fdc0: [FAST] fd0: 1440-KB 3.5 drive on fdc0 drive 0 sc0: System console at flags 0x100 on isa0 sc0: VGA 9 virtual consoles, flags=0x300 vga0: Generic ISA VGA at port 0x3b0-0x3df iomem 0xa-0xb on isa0 uart0: 16550 or compatible at port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 on isa0 uart1: 16550 or compatible at port 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 on isa0 unknown: PNP0700 can't assign resources (port) unknown: PNP0c01 can't assign resources (memory) unknown: PNP0303 can't assign resources (port) unknown: PNP0c02 can't assign resources (port) Timecounters tick every 10.000 msec da0 at ahc0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 da0: SEAGATE ST39175LW 0001 Fixed Direct Access SCSI-2 device da0: 40.000MB/s transfers (20.000MHz, offset 15, 16bit), Tagged Queueing Enabled da0: 8683MB (17783240 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 1106C) da1 at ahc0 bus 0 target 1 lun 0 da1: QUANTUM XP39100S LYK8 Fixed Direct Access SCSI-2 device da1: 20.000MB/s transfers (20.000MHz, offset 31), Tagged Queueing Enabled da1: 8682MB (17781520 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 1106C) da2 at ahc0 bus 0 target 2 lun 0 da2: SEAGATE ST318404LW 3251 Fixed Direct Access SCSI-3 device da2: 160.000MB/s transfers (80.000MHz, offset 63, 16bit), Tagged Queueing Enabled da2: 17501MB (35843670 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 2231C) da3 at ahc0 bus 0 target 3 lun 0 da3: SEAGATE ST318404LW 3251 Fixed Direct Access SCSI-3 device da3: 160.000MB/s transfers (80.000MHz, offset 63, 16bit), Tagged Queueing Enabled da3: 17501MB (35843670 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 2231C) SMP: AP CPU #1 Launched! cd0 at ahc0 bus 0 target 6 lun 0 cd0: TOSHIBA CD-ROM XM-6201TA 1400 Removable CD-ROM SCSI-2 device cd0: 10.000MB/s transfers (10.000MHz, offset 16) cd0: Attempt to query device size failed: NOT READY, Medium not present Trying to mount root
Re: P2B-D and ACPI or SMB anyone?
On Thu, 21-May-2009 at 08:44:00 -0400, Michael Powell wrote: Andre Albsmeier wrote: Hi, found this old P2B-D board with two 1GHz CPUs and don't want to throw it away ;-) Has anyone got it running with ACPI and without the interrupt storm on irq20? Judging from old mailing list messages it was blacklisted in 5.3 so ACPI got disabled but since it doesn't in 6.4-STABLE the issues were possibly fixed and I am simply too stupid... [snip] What you may want to check is the BIOS revision. Easy enough to flash it with the latest released bits if there is something newer than what you've got currently. Done that already. I run the latest V14beta3 (whose counterpart I also run on the UP boxes for the purpose of Tualatin support)... -Andre ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: SCSI errors with Adaptec 2200S RAID
On Tue, 03-Aug-2004 at 23:31:52 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please cc replies directly to me, as I am not subscribed to the lists. With some help from here, I was able to get this RAID card to see our external DLT (QUANTUM 4000) SCSI tape drive by installing the aacp (pass through) driver in addition to the aac driver. camcontrol now works, as do basic mt commands and amcheck (amanda check). However, (amanda) dumps either hang, fail completely or fail after transfering very little data. On the console, I see: (sa0:aacp1:0:4:0): READ(06). CDB8 0 0 0 20 0 0 (sa0:aacp1:0:4:0): NO SENSE ILI (length mismatch): -24576 csi:0,0,0,1 At this point the device is completely unresponsive, and the only way to get the system to see it again is to reboot the whole server. I tried ordering a 3 ft cable, thinking I was pushing my luck with the 6 ft (I've had this problem with SCSI cables in the past), but the problem persists. The same drive (which has an active terminator) has been working fine for years on a different box using an Intel L440GX+ MB's on-board SCSI port. Once again, any helpful replies are greatly appreciated! Are you sure you are running a recent fw on your DLT4k? My DLTs used to behave badly with early fw revisions. Check out http://www.quantum.com/am/service_support/downloads/software/dlt4000.htm You can upgrade it by tape or use my software for updating the fw of SCSI devices on FreeBSD. -Andre James Smallacombe PlantageNet, Inc. CEO and Janitor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://3.am = ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-isp To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Regression testing? What's that? If it compiles, it is good, if it boots up, it is perfect. - Linus Torvalds ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 3D with MGA on XFree86 4.3.0 / 5.0-RELEASE?
On Thu, 13-Mar-2003 at 13:32:21 +0100, Gary Jennejohn wrote: Glenn Johnson writes: On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 03:38:02PM -0800, J. Kanowitz wrote: With 4.3.0, I've not seen the usual reminder about the driver, and blindly specifying WITH_MATROX_GXX_DRIVER (without bothering to pore over the build output; see previous comment on 'lazy') doesn't do the trick: No, it is not an option for XFree86-4.3. Matrox has not made an updated version available yet. I am not sure if the current code from Matrox will build with XFree86-4.3 but that would leave you with an older mga driver. I would guess that Matrox will eventually update their driver but unless you are running multi-displays you probably do not need it. I'm using a G450 with a TFT which makes using the HAL necessary. I merely copied the old mga_hal_drv.o from 4.2.1 and it works just fine. It is also needed for TV-Out support on the G400-DH. -Andre To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
How to truncate a file in the beginning
Are there any special features in FreeBSD that I can use to truncate a file in the beginning? Let's assume I have a 50GB file. Only the last 10GB are interesting for me and I have to free the first 40GB for some reason. Of course, I could seek to the appropriate position and copy the 10GB to a new file and unlink the old one. The problem is that I don't have a lot of time to do this so I am looking for something like ftruncate() but for the beginning... Any ideas? Thanks, -Andre To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: How to truncate a file in the beginning
On Fri, 13-Dec-2002 at 08:15:22 -0500, Gerald T. Freymann wrote: On Fri, 13 Dec 2002, Andre Albsmeier wrote: Are there any special features in FreeBSD that I can use to truncate a file in the beginning? Sure. man split should do it! Don't think so... from the split manpage: The split utility reads the given file and breaks it up into files of 1000 lines each. If file is a single dash (`-') or absent, split reads from the standard input. ... Maybe my email wasn't very clear regarding this: I can't afford to read the 10GB (or even more) and move them to a new file (this would have to be done on the same disk so it would take too long). I need something that moves the start of the file to a position within the file and discard all bytes upto that position. I had a look at split.c but it does exactly that what I don't need: It reads and writes... -Andre To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: How to truncate a file in the beginning
On Fri, 13-Dec-2002 at 05:41:41 -0800, David Schultz wrote: Thus spake Andre Albsmeier [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Are there any special features in FreeBSD that I can use to truncate a file in the beginning? Let's assume I have a 50GB file. Only the last 10GB are interesting for me and I have to free the first 40GB for some reason. Of course, I could seek to the appropriate position and copy the 10GB to a new file and unlink the old one. The problem is that I don't have a lot of time to do this so I am looking for something like ftruncate() but for the beginning... Nope, you have to copy the data. Technically something like this could be implemented by copying metadata only, but it would only work if the amount you want to snip is a multiple of the filesystem's block size. However, it's a lot of work for a rather uncommon case; even ftruncate() is used infrequently. Perhaps you could devise a scheme for striping your data across multiple 10GB files. Hmm, that's bad news :-). Thanks anyway, now I know that I have to figure out something differently. Maybe I will create lots of, let's say, 100MB files and manage them myself... Thanks, -Andre To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: mounting smbfs at boot time
On Tue, 05-Nov-2002 at 11:10:59 -0800, Rotaru Razvan wrote: Hello, well when I said ~/.nsmbrc i meant also /root/.nsmbrc. Still i doesn't work for me, but then again my method with the daemon-like startup script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d is unusual. /usr/local/etc/nsmb.conf doesn't even work work even with a normal mount_smbfs command with -N. I don't have the machine handy at the moment (I am on holidays) but IIRC, this is what I do: 1. I have the filesystems in /etc/fstab: //user@machine/apps/smbfs/appssmbfs noauto,rw 0 0 2. I have the appropriate entries in /etc/nsmb.conf (NOT in /usr/local) 3. I have a script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d which mainly does this /sbin/mount -o -N,-R3,-cl /smbfs/apps It is a bit more complicated here since I have to traverse a firewall and my script also tests the availability of the servers. It also scans /etc/fstab to automatically mount every smbfs in there. However, IMO, the ideal solution would be to teach amd about smbfs but I don't know enough about amd :-( Maybe one day I will have time to dig into this... -Andre Can you tell me how do you mount your shares at boot time? or at least can i see your /etc/fstab file ? Regards, Razvan --- Andrew Brampton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm a freeBSD newbie, but I found a solution to your problem, I appear to have a /root/.nsmbrc file with passwords in which are used to mount my shares at boot time. But if you can't use this file then try /usr/local/etc/nsmb.conf which is a default of some kind. Hope this helps :) Andrew - Original Message - From: Rotaru Razvan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2002 5:36 PM Subject: mounting smbfs at boot time Hello, Well here is what i want to ask: I want to mount a smbfs at boot time. Editing /etc/fstab won't do because filesystems are mounted before network initalisation. The noauto option doesn't help (it doesn't mount at boottime, neither on 'mount -a' ; by the way why should anyone enter a filesystem in fstab with the noauto option?!?! doesn't make any sense). Next thing i tried is to make a daemon-like startup script (in /usr/local/etc/rc.d ) that actually doesn't start any daemon, but mounts my partition when called with 'start' parameter and unmounts when called with 'stop' parameter. The problem is i have to call in this script a mount_smbfs command with the -N option (it should not ask for my smb password on boot time). Well with this option mount_smbfs looks in ~/.nsmbrc for a password. Apparently on boot time (when initializing local services) the deamon startup scripta do not run as root (i doubt they run as any user that has a home directory) so there is no way of supplying this .nmbrc file to mount_smbfs. Well for now am i out of ideas. Maybe you have a more simple solution. Thanks anyway for the attention. Razvan __ Do you Yahoo!? HotJobs - Search new jobs daily now http://hotjobs.yahoo.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message __ Do you Yahoo!? HotJobs - Search new jobs daily now http://hotjobs.yahoo.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message -- Win98: useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Directory structure for commercial products
On Thu, 10-Oct-2002 at 15:19:26 +0300, Serban Mihai wrote:
Hi,
I'm looking for a standard/official specification for the filesystem
hierarchy used on FreeBSD (and all BSDs) regarding commercial products.
Conforming to hier(7) the PREFIX (/usr/local) location should be used
for local packages. And there the /usr hierarchy should be used.
Let's suppose I have to install a commercial product named 'foo'. The
package contains binaries, libraries, logs, UNIX sockets, temporary
files, configuration files and periodically updated data files.
Does the following directory structure conform to standards?
PREFIX/foo/{bin, lib, etc, tmp, log, data, run...}
or should it be:
PREFIX/bin/foo
PREFIX/lib/foo
PREFIX/etc/foo
PREFIX/libdata/foo/{tmp, log, data, run..}?
Is there any other solution? I will greatly appreciate your help.
One thing to observe is, that some people like to mount their /usr
read-only. This might be a reason to put the tmp and log data
into /var (instead of /usr/local/...). Samba, for example, puts
its temporary data in /var. This might especially be true for
servers.
-Andre
Best regards.
Mihai Serban
AV Development Manager
GeCAD Software / RAV Division
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Re: How to configure refclock-0 with MAKEDEV ?
On Wed, 09-Oct-2002 at 15:51:43 +0200, Frank Bonnet wrote: Hi I have a DCF77 gude receiver I run ntpd with RAWDCF I looked into MAKEDEV script with mention refclock-* statement but I cannot generate such device file with MAKEDEV. Does someone could give me the exact syntax to generate such device file ? Since I assume that your DCF receiver is attached to a serial port on your machine (mine is), I would do a cd /dev; ln -s cuaax refclock-0 where x corresponds to the number of your serial port and assuming the cuaax device is already in there. -Andre To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
